Brief Life History of Alsa
When Alsa Pace was born on 30 March 1796, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Edmund Marion Pace, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Walker, was 29. He married Rhoda Jarvis on 22 March 1816. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Beat 1, Jasper, Mississippi, United States in 1860 and Mississippi, United States in 1870. He died on 22 July 1883, in Bailey, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Fellowship Baptist Church Cemetery, Obadiah, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States.
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- Alsa Pace, "United States Census, 1860"
- Alsa Pace, "Find A Grave Index"
- Alsa Pace in U.S., War of 1812 Service Records
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World Events (8)
1798 · Mississippi is Organized as an American Territory
The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English: from a vernacular short form of the Latin personal name Paschalis (see Paschal ).
English: nickname for a mild-mannered and peaceable person, from Middle English pais, pace, pes(e), pece ‘peace, concord, amity’ (a borrowing of Old French pais, from Latin pax), or perhaps from the derived adjective pes ‘quiet, silent, peaceful’.
Italian: from the medieval personal name Pace, from the vocabulary word pace ‘peace’ (see 2 above), used for both males and females. In some instances it may represent a short form of the medieval personal name Bonapace, an omen or well-wishing name based on the same word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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